The Juke R, which will be available in American and offered on a build-to-order basis, was always known to be expensive. The car requires the cannibalization of both a GT-R and a Juke for it to become a reality, plus a whole host of custom fabrication.

Now, Jalopnik is reporting that the final MSRP will be $600,000. With a limited run of 20-25 cars, it surely will be an exclusive collectors vehicle that promises to be unique. But it’s still a Juke with a GT-R powertrain, making it a Frankenstein of two mass-produced cars. Personally, the appeal is hard to grasp. Nevertheless, I’m sure Nissan will be able to find the requisite number of super-wealthy buyers.

And people are bitching about the LFA being overpriced. It’s a bargain compared to this abortion. If you like how the Juke looks, why not buy a GTR, drive it into a tree at 30mph and then get someone to rearend it yet. Same performance and looks at a fraction of the cost.

Naaa, the base “Le Car” was waaaay cooler then the turbo, the freaky headrests alone made it the coolest car in the world. Or not.

However it’s not a modern Renault 5 turbo but rather a modern Nissan Sunny/Pulsar GTI-R. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Pulsar_GTI-R A friend (who owned a Mazda 323 GT-R)of a friend of mine had one of those and it was fast as hell.

For the people that are buying cars at this price level the money is nothing relative to their wealth. If I was in that position I would rather get something interesting than a bland appliance that will be outdated as soon as something goes faster. I’ve seen four LF-As in a row at an autoshow and it was the most underwhelming $1.5 million I have ever seen in my life. The FR-S has more presence.

It looks like you are a Toyota fanboy – I have nothing against Toyota. I had an MR-2 Spyder and it was an awesome car. I just feel nothing for the LF-A, no matter what kind of ‘ring time it can be programmed to perform.

This Juke with a GT-R engine in its ass, on the other hand, I would drop an unnoticeable amount of my oil wealth on.

If they made a Versa GTR I’d be interested, it’d be like a rally car. If I want a Nissan just to be different, I’d buy a later Datsun 510 and not modify it. I”d rather display taste in my unique choice than blind the elderly.

It wouldn’t surprise me if they didn’t make a profit even at that absurd price. The engineering and testing alone probably cost a fortune. Not to mention things like crash and emission testing and certification.

I don’t think that would be an issue, since the car is the guts of one production car in the shell of another. The crash testing and emissions probably falls under one of two cars’ standards. If they’re produced in Europe like the original one was, and the DOT/NHSTA doesn’t recognize it as either a Juke or GTR, it can be imported under “Show and Display.”

“it surely will be an exclusive collectors vehicle that promises to be unique. But it’s still a Juke with a GT-R powertrain, making it a Frankenstein of two mass-produced cars”

I’m just trying to imagine who in their right mind would ‘collect’ this at all, let alone for $600K? For much less you could probably contract with someone to build your own super Juke, probably from scratch.

That’s what this is. Nissan isn’t producing this directly; it’s under license to a speed shop (RML Group) that takes a Juke and a GT-R as donor cars and adds a bunch of go-fast parts, many of them custom-fabbed for this application.

screw it, I approve. In exactly the same way I’d rather see actual car based racecars doing battle over prototypes, I kind of like seeing half million dollar halos with some relationship to an actually buyable car. It’s not like cars such as the Veyron and F1 have no place in my heart, but frankly I don’t even really read road reviews of them anymore. Too divorced from what I’m going to see on a real road.

Next up, the Cube R. With a run of maybe ten cars at $1.2M each, they should go like hotcakes.

A convertible Murano R would be great, too. For a support vehicle, the Quest R. And for the fuel/environmentally conscious, the Leaf R.

Hell, at those prices and miniscule volume, Nissan should make a GT-R based version of their entire model line. You know there’s a small group of ultra-wealthy out there, somewhere, that will buy them all just to have a matching set.